U S Orders Legation At Prague Shut
The United States closed its legation in Prague and ordered its minister Wilbur J. Carr to return home. Carr said there are no Czech government officials with whom he can maintain relations to protect U S interests and citizens. The move comes as Congress debates foreign policy amid Germany’s expansion.
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Washington
United States
Prague
Wilbur J. Carr
Germany
State Department
Carr
Thill
Wis
Civil Aeronautics seeks 7 million for pilot training
The Civil Aeronautics Authority asked Congress for 7.3 million dollars to train 20 000 pilots for potential emergencies. Authority member Robert Hinckley told the House Interstate Commerce Committee the program would deter aerial attacks on the western hemisphere. In South Pines Patty Berg opened the Mid-South Women's Golf tournament with a 37, six strokes under par, leading Estelle Lawson Page by four.
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Washington
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Congress
Robert Hinckley
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Southern Pines
March
Patty Berg
Estelle Lawson Page
Alliene Hoover
Thomasville
Jean Kyer
Ann Arbor
Mich
Betty Abernethy
Pittsburgh
Senators Wheeler and Truman Propose Rail Road Reorganization Bill
Wheeler and Truman completed a bill to revise the reorganization procedure of financially distressed railroads. The measure, first of several on railroads this session, creates a three judge court to supervise all railroad reorganizations under Interstate Commerce Commission limits.
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Washington
Wheeler
D-Mont
Truman
D-Mo
Interstate Commerce Commission
Germany and Lithuania Reported to Reach Memel Understanding
Memel talks between Germany and Lithuania reported as an understanding on Germany’s possible annexation of Memel. In separate news, 400,000 WPA workers to be cut off work relief the week of April 3 unless Congress provides extra funds.
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Memel
Berlin
Mar
Germany
Lithuania
Washington
WPA
Congress
Communist bandits seize guards in Kirin Province raid
A Domei dispatch from Hsinking reports a bloody uprising by Communist bandits in Kirin Province Central Manchukuo. About 300 attackers seized the forest guards headquarters near Huatien, killing six Manchukuoan guards and abducting 283 others.
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Tokyo
Kirin
Manchukuo
Domei
Hsinking
Manchoukuo Forest Guards
Huatien
Income Tax Receipts Upward Hint Seen by Maxwell
Raleigh March 20 AP Revenue Commissioner A J Maxwell said it won't be bad news he will present to the Senate appropriations committee on income tax receipts. Receipts last week climbed past 7.7 million and may reach about 9.75 to 10 million this year as tabulations were completed and he conferred with Governor Hoey and budget director. Maxwell will report before the committee as it resumes work on the administration's compromise appropriations bill for educational funding and the biennial budget.
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Raleigh
A. J. Maxwell
Senate Appropriations Committee
Maxwell
Hoey
R. G. Deyton
House
Joint Appropriations Committee
General Assembly
Senate
Avery Man Held in Mails Fraud Case
Shelby March 20 Raymond Hughes of Avery county was arrested in Asheville on charges of using the mails to defraud. U S marshal Charles R Price said Hughes is jailed in Buncombe county with a $100000 bond. A son Guy Hughes faces trial here tomorrow on related charges.
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Shelby
Charles R. Price
U. S
Raymond Hughes
Avery County
Asheville
Price
Hughes
Buncombe County
Guy Hughes
Roosevelt Nominates Douglas For Justice
President Roosevelt nominates William Douglas to the Supreme Court to replace retired Justice Louis Brandeis. Douglas, 40, chairs the Securities Commission and is a New Deal supporter born in Minnesota with Connecticut roots.
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Washington
William
Douglas
Securities Commission
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Senate
Louis D. Brandeis
High Tribunal
Yale
Connecticut
Minnesota
Washington State
Charles Evans Hughes
James C. McReynolds
Pierce Butler
Washington hotel strike ends in compromise
The unionized staff at 13 hotels in Washington reached a compromise under Labor Department conciliation chief John R. Steelman. Hotels keep promotion and firing rights but must give preference to union members for vacancies, ending the strike.
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Washington
Capital Hotels
John R. Steelman
Labor Department
Independent Action For Overhauling Taxes Looms
Washington march 20 sentiment grew in the senate finance committee for independent congressional action to overhaul business taxes if President Roosevelt fails to recommend revision. Romney of details: Roosevelt notes treasury studies. reforms could encourage business. majority of Senate favors overhauling corporate taxes. debate also on government reorganization bill and Wagner Act hearings set.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Roosevelt
Treasury
Harrison
D-Miss
Finance Committee
Morgenthau
Hopkins
George
D-Ga
Adams
D-Cole
Austin
R-Vi
Congress
Senate
Wheeler
D-Mont
House
Interior Department
Senate Labor Committee
Borah
Ridaho
FDR Transmits Morgenthau Note on Debt Limits
President Roosevelt sent to Congress Morgenthau’s report arguing no need to raise the 45 billion dollar total debt cap but urging removal of the 306 billion dollar long term bonds limit. Treasury says debt may need only modest increase into 1940 and requests authority for next fiscal year financing.
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Washington
Mar
Roosevelt
Congress
Morgenthau
Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Franco Refuses Plea For Honor Peace
At the Spanish frontier near Hendaye on March 20 dispatches from Burgos report Generalissimo Franco's Nationalists rejecting a Republican bid for an honorable peace. They demand Madrid's unconditional surrender and vow to pursue the war to its last village, ignoring Madrid’s peace moves.
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Hendaye
France
Madrid
Burgos
Franco
Madrid Defense Council
Spain
Romania ready to grant trade concessions to Germany
Bucharest reports indicate Romania will widen trade with Germany but will not surrender political rights. Talks between German trade expert Wohlthat and Romania’s finance ministry near completion, with Germany seeking dominance of markets yet Romania rejecting ultimatums. Romania warns against economic dependence that could resemble a German colony while maintaining military readiness of 500000 men.
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Bucharest
Rumania
Germany
Helmuth Wohlthat
Finance Ministry
Bohemia- Moravia
Skoda
Czecho-Slovakia
Romania
Balkans
Southern Governors Meet In Atlanta On Freight Rates
Nine southern state leaders converge in Atlanta for Southeastern Governors Conference to study William E. Lee report proposing lower rates on 14 Southbound commodities. Attendees include Governors Bailey Dix on White Cooper and Ramspeck as well as public service officials from several states.
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Atlanta
Southeastern Governors’ Conference
William E. Lee
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Harry C. Ames
New England
Cooper
Tennessee
Governor Rivers
Georgia
Southeastern Group
Public Service Commission
H. W. Scott
South Carolina
Harry McMullan
Stanley Winborne
North Carolina
Hoey May
International At A Glance Amid Global Tensions
AP reports Britain's cabinet engages with Russia Poland Rumania Yugoslavia Turkey Bulgaria to form a Stop Hitler bloc. Berlin notes Nazi talks and ministerial recalls while Paris hints at Rhineland mobilization. Bucharest seeks German concessions as Moscow denounces Czech moves and Hendayer pushes for unconditional Republican surrender.
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London
Russia
Poland
Rumania
Yugoslavia
Turkey
Bulgaria
Hitler
Berlin
Paris
Rhineland
Germany
Bucharest
France
Britain
Moscow
Czecho-Slovakia
Hendayer
Frenco
France Moves Toward Regional Mobilization on Rhine Front
Paris reports Daladier plans regional mobilization along the Rhine as a warning to Germany over Romania. First decrees aim to recall troops increasing France's standing army near 1,000,000, tied to a stiffer Anglo French stance after Czechoslovakia's loss.
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Paris
Rhineland
Germany
Rumania
Daladier
Albert Lebrun
Nazi Germany
Czecho-Slovakia
War Ministry
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
British Leader Orders Defense Program Review
Berlin reports Urbsys and Ribbentrop discussed Memel fate with Memel likely rejoined Germany within days. Britain eyes a united anti-Hitler front with France and Soviet Russia while Chamberlain previews a far-reaching defense review and possible motion to curb German trade.
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Berlin
Juozas Urbsys
Lithuania
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Memel
Johannes von Welczek
Paris
Robert Coulondre
Germany
Baltic
Hitler
Britain
Czecho-Slovakia
London
France
Soviet
Russia
Maybank Refuses Slayers Clemency in South Carolina
Governor Burnet R. Maybank denied clemency to six men condemned for the December 12, 1937 slaying of Capt. L. Olin Sanders at the state penitentiary. He rejected new evidence and said mercy cannot be shown to those who showed none. The condemned are William B. Gentry alias Woods Biloxi Mississippi Roy Suttles Simpsonville Clayton Crans Rochester New York Herbert Moorman Detroit Michigan J W Bair Sumter and George Wingard Columbia. Reprieves had been granted two weeks earlier following a judge’s recommendation for Crans and Wingard. The state supreme court had refused new trials on after discovered evidence.
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Columbia
S. C
Burnet R. Maybank
L. Olin Sanders
State Penitentiary
Maybank
William B. Gentry
Alias Woods
Biloxi
Miss
Roy Suttles
Simpsonville
Clayton Crans
Rochester
N. Y
Herbert Moorman
Detroit
Mich
J. W. Bair
Sumter
George Wingard
Co. C. Featherstone
Moscow Calm Amidst Tense German Advance Crisis
Moscow remains calm as Nazi troops near the Soviet border. Soviet leaders condemn Hitler's absorption of Czecho Slovakia as arbitrary and violent while signaling possible cooperation with Western democracies against aggression. Diplomatic activity and note to Germany accompany the tense stance.
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Wade Werner
Moscow
Adolf Hitler
Czecho-Slovakia
L. Z. Mekhil
Soviet Russia
Union
Soviet Union
Augusto Rosso
Maxim Litvinoff
Germany
Czechia
Bohemia- Moravia
French Troops Start Syrian Occupation
Damascus reports French government assumes all police and security powers and begins military occupation of Damascus amid revolts in Syria. Rioting has spread from Damascus to Homs and other cities as Syrian nationalists protest France’s delayed 1936 independence treaty.
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Damascus
Syria
Homs
France
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